Mortal Science

Two class-bound universal social logics at war.

“The Infrastructure of the Modern World”

from “A History of Separation”, Endnotes 4 (2015)

The structure of the problem is unfolding.

Note: this was recorded before the post-COVID labor market, the new wave of labor organizing, and the resurgence of strikes. We like strikes.

“The Infrastructure of the Modern World”

from “A History of Separation”, Endnotes 4 (2015)

Derick & Ezri find the worm in the core.

Derick & Ezri become unsettled with the implications of Turchin’s social stability positivism.

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Ezri & Derick compare Peter Turchin’s attempt to formalize modes of production in Ages of Discord to marxist attempts to periodize history.

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Derick & Ezri reflect on how developments in the memory-holed Skeptic and New Atheist movements shaped us and the political landscape through pieces by Massimo Pigliucci ("Vindicating science by bringing it down": https://platofootnote.wordpress.com/2018/12/28/vindicating-science-by-bringing-it-down-part-i/).

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Ezri & Derick finally make it past the Preface of “A History of Separation” and zero in on an incongruous premise

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Derick & Ezri continue critiquing the methodology of “A History of Separation” and start realizing how long this is going to take

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Paul Channelstrip (The Antifada, Reel Abstractions) is taking over as editor and producer of Mortal Science, which means new episodes will start coming out again. Patrons get to hear them early with the new Null Set feed.

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Ezri & Derick bite off more critical theory than they can chew as a brief overview of “A History of Separation” from Endnotes 4 turns into something much more unwieldy

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